Moving to the sixth episode of Sweet Tooth, we find two more characters from the comics. The first one appears in Stranger Danger on a Train as General Abbot more or less intentionally saves Dr. Singh and his wife Rani from the mob that had set their house on fire: convinced of the potential of the doctor, Abbot entrusts the couple to his right-hand man, Johnny, portrayed by Marlon Williams. He appears quite clumsy, and Abbot warns him not to “screw up this time”, hinting at some past mistakes on his side: the fact that he frees the Singhs’ horse out of pure kindness gives away what kind of mistakes those can be. In the comics, the relationship between Abbot and Johnny is much closer than it would seem at first, and there’s a good reason for which the military leader keeps him around despite his gentle and sometimes defiant nature: let’s see together.
Since his childhood, Johnny Abbot was gentle and kind… a bit too kind, considering what kind of father he shared the house with. Abusive and violent, Johnny’s father was always ready to beat him for his “weakness”, and the only reason Johnny made it out of childhood alive was most likely his big brother, Doug, who always stepped in to defend him, taking the most of the beating. Doug was different: he was tough, strong, ready and willing to pull a punch if need be, and Johnny always 
relied on him for protection. Doug, however, insisted that Johnny learnt to defend himself, as he wouldn’t have always been there for him, but violence simply wasn’t in the younger brother’s nature, and he never changed a bit. As they grew up, the brothers eventually got separated, with Doug joining the US Army and Johnny staying behind in their family house: when their father got sick, and lost his mind to dementia, Johnny stayed with him and took care for him 24/7, turning from abused son to caring nurse, not caring of how mean the man had been to him. Then, the world started changing, and the mysterious virus H5-G9, better known as The Sick, started killing hundreds of people up north, from Alaska to Canada. It all seemed pretty far away to Johnny, who kept living his life as always, but then one day, as he went to the local pharmacy to take some drugs for his father, he was attacked by three men who wanted to steal the medicines from him: society had collapsed much faster than anticipated, and Johnny wasn’t ready for it. Just as he believed to be a goner, Doug arrived, and shot the three looters: he had come back home from the Canadian border, and knew that the virus would have started spreading everywhere soon. He had come to take him to safety, as usual.
Johnny, however, couldn’t possibly join Doug in his escape through the country: he had his father to take care of… but this was an objection his big brother had already taken into consideration. Just prior to reaching him to the pharmacy, Doug had been to their family home, and had shot his sick father to the head, relieving Johnny of his responsibilities. Not surprisingly, Johnny was quite shocked, but he wasn’t left any time to mourn: he joined Doug’s platoon, and they started marching, until they reached a military base. Here, the commanding officer gladly welcomed more capable 
hands, but he didn’t want to let Johnny in, and tried to send him away. Before Johnny could even think of doing anything, Doug stepped in to defend him once again, and after a brief confrontation, he killed the officer and took command of the base, that would have become known as The Preserve. From there on, Johnny watched as his brother started to change, becoming a harder and harder man, who was desperately trying to preserve what little civilization had remained after the Crumble, as it was called. When Abbot obtained the aid of a scientist, Dr. Singh, who believed the mysterious Hybrids, the half-human half-animal children who were being born in those days, to be the key to a cure, Doug had his men capture Hybrid kids and pregnant women, and Johnny was tasked with taking care of them in the kennels, cleaning their cages and keeping them fed… at least for the time before Singh vivisected them during his experiments, of course. Johnny’s kind nature, however, never let him take this kind of task lightly, and many times he enraged his brother, first by freeing a prisoner, Jepperd, out of pity on him, a man who was only looking for his pregnant wife; then he also let some Hybrids go, even if they were immediately recaptured. The only reason for which Johnny hadn’t been killed by the military, yet, was because his brother kept protecting him, but he wouldn’t have been there for him forever, as he had been telling him for years…
Johnny Abbot is the virtual opposite of his brother: kind, gentle and caring by nature, he’s so good-hearted that his brother’s soldiers believe him to be retarded. Pretty smart and resourceful, actually, Johnny is simply incapable of any kind of violence, and can’t even stand seeing others suffer it, as he had in his childhood. Always ready to help the weak and the helpless, Johnny puts his life on the line on a daily basis, confident that his brother will always protect him.
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